Sharkwater - Rob Stewart’s Sobering Film about the Shark Fin Trade
The film Sharkwater is a bit of buzz kill for those of us who would like to think of Costa Rica as paradise, where everything lives in peaceful harmony. Nonetheless, I urge you to watch this film so that you can have a better understanding of humanity, nature, and our role as the stewards of this planet. Unfortunately, as the film exposes the horrific shark fishing practice called “finning,” it becomes blatantly obvious that we still have tremendous progress to make a species. The Costa Rica shark finning industry must be stopped before we lose this incredibly important apex predator.
Shark “finning” is a term used to describe the process of catching sharks, removing the fins while the shark is still alive, and then dumping the incapacitated still living body overboard to die. The product? Shark fin soup - a delicacy in Japan. While people chow down, these prehistoric apex predators of the worlds oceans are disappearing at an alarming rate. The balance of an entire ecosystem is threatened as we speak. I’m talking about you and I. Everything will suffer if the sharks are wiped out. Watch the film, I posted a YouTube clip from the Sharkwater movie in another post for you.
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Costa Rica Surf Guru DVD Picks
Hi. Its me again… Just wanted to point you in the direction of some cool Costa Rica videos. “Surf Porn” as we call here in the business. If you can’t get in the water for a week or two - we all have lives - then a good video can keep the stoke levels up a bit. I’m kind of crazy about Costa Rica, so all my DVD picks for you are just that. The perfect thing to watch before you surfing, and especially before you go there.
Andy Irons Learn to Surf DVD is great for beginners, the way I see if, if you’re going to learn you may as well learn from the best. Same goes for the Roxy Learn to Surf DVD.
Watching other people surf and getting an idea for how waves break is essential. It will help you when you take your first surf lesson at surf camp. A good video gets you in the zone a bit more, and keeps you stoked when the waves are down.
